Real gross domestic product (real GDP) is a macroeconomic measure of the value of economic output adjusted for price changes (i.e. inflation or deflation). This adjustment transforms the money-value measure, nominal GDP, into an index for quantity of total output. Although GDP is total output, it is primarily useful because it closely approximates the total spending: the sum of consumer spending, investment made by industry, excess of exports over imports, and government spending. Due to inflation, GDP increases and does not actually reflect the true growth in an economy. That is why the GDP must be divided by the inflation rate (raised to the power of units of time in which the rate is measured) to get the growth of the real GDP.
Here are the top 20 fastest growing economies in the world.
Rank | Country | Real GDP growth rate |
1. | Libya | 177.26% |
2. | Maldives | 31.47% |
3. | Guyana | 19.93% |
4. | Macao | 17.99% |
5. | Aruba | 16.80% |
6. | Panama | 15.34% |
7. | Moldova | 13.95% |
8. | Ireland | 13.48% |
9. | Peru | 13.30% |
10. | Botswana | 12.52% |
11. | Honduras | 12.50% |
12. | Montenegro | 12.43% |
13. | Dominican Republic | 12.26% |
14. | Chile | 11.69% |
15. | Turkey | 10.99% |
16. | Colombia | 10.56% |
17. | Croatia | 10.45% |
18. | Georgia | 10.36% |
19. | Nicaragua | 10.30% |
20. | El Salvador | 10.30% |